global-shared.css currently sets --panel-description-color to GrayText. Accessibility recommends we reserve GrayText for disabled or placeholder items only.

Hey Jules, do you have a recommendation for what color we should use here instead?

Hey Amy, last time I spoke to Dao about this he recommended inherit since panels already have a color set. Thanks for asking, I forgot to include that.

Looks like we use GreyText and a hsl grey hsl(0,0%,50%); for MacOS. I assume we want to update both? (By removing the MacOS override)
Assigning P2 to this - its a simple patch and a11y issue we should get to sooner rather than later.

Thanks, Sam. Yes, we should update both places.

(In reply to Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him) from comment #3)

Looks like we use GreyText and a hsl grey hsl(0,0%,50%); for MacOS. I assume we want to update both? (By removing the MacOS override)
Assigning P2 to this - its a simple patch and a11y issue we should get to sooner rather than later.

Yeah, we should use something like color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 70%, transparent) instead of GrayText on all platforms when not in HCM, and inherit in HCM.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/24f45b99ed08